Chalk Quote by Rick Wakeman

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

— Adrian Younge

You know what I do? I study '70s music.

— Inspectah Deck

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has…

— Alicia Keys

I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born,…

— M. Ward

I think if you go back to the '60s and '70s, that music felt newer, you were hearing stories told for the first time.

— Giveon

I listen to records I made years ago and it takes me back to that time, so why not actually put a bit of…

— Bonobo

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

— Rosanne Cash

I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.

— Selena Gomez

Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live…

— Tony Levin

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record…

— Billy Corgan

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

— Paul Lansky

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

— Timbaland